Reply #69: Once again, I have to repost the crash-course in Clintonian race baiting

[jgraz]

Of course, you probably already know these, you just "forgot" to include them in your OP.

12/10/07 Three Clinton volunteers resign after admitting to promulgating the racist "Obama is a Muslim" email

01/07/08 Hillary disses MLK and says that a white president did more to further black civil rights

01/07/08 First public mention of assassination by a Clinton surrogate

01/08/08 Bill's famous "fairy tale" rant

01/10/08 An unnamed Clinton adviser dismisses Obama as "your imaginary hip black friend".

01/10/08 Clinton surrogate Andrew Cuomo says Obama "shucks and jives".

01/13/08 Clinton surrogate Bob Johnson talks of Obama's drug use "back in the neighborhood" and compares him to Sidney Poitier in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"


01/13/08 Obama's first comment on their race baiting -- especially the fact that the Clintons were blaming the furore on Obama

"She made an unfortunate remark about Martin Luther King and Lyndon Johnson,” he said. “I haven't remarked on it. And she offended some folks who thought she diminished the role about King and the civil rights movement. The notion that this is our doing is ludicrous.”

And we still hadn't gotten to:

+ Bill Clinton dismisses Obama's South Carolina win by comparing him to Jesse Jackson

+ The Clinton campaign distributes a photo of Obama in "muslim garb", then sends out surrogates to call the outfit his "native clothing".

+ Clinton surrogate Ed Rendell says white voters in his state of Pennsylvania are "not ready to vote for an African-American candidate".

+ Geraldine Ferraro says that Obama is lucky he's black and implies that he wouldn't be winning if he wasn't.

+ Hillary Clinton talks about her base as "hard-working Americans, white Americans".


Since I know your next response will be "link?", here's one to a great DU article that covers some of the early offenses in greater detail: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4193768